The BriteCloud Expendable Active Decoy (EAD) was launched to potential customers and the world's media in late 2013 with defence company Saab being the first to offer the off-board decoy as an electronic warfare enhancement option on all Gripen fast-jet variants. Leonardo 04/03/2016

Thales Alenia Space signed a contract worth €450 million with the European Space Agency (ESA), to build the Sentinel-3C and D environmental monitoring and oceanographic satellites for the European programme Copernicus. Roma 10/02/2016

2015 was a crucial year for the Euclid programme, the ESA's new cosmology mission after Planck, whose main objective is to study the origin and expansion of the Universe. In fact, the satellite's design review and that of the mission's other elements were completed successfully in July and October respectively and fully confirmed the feasibility and scientific objectives of the programme. Roma 15/01/2016

Shaping the future. This seems to be the motto of the MBDA production facility in Fusaro (NA, Italy). In fact, in recent months this site has experienced enormous change in the production of missile systems. Several components are manufactured through Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM), or 3D printers. The site, located near Naples, has a workforce of about 400 employees engaged in production, integration and R&D activities, and it is a centre... Rome 15/01/2016

Telespazio (Finmeccanica 67%, Thales 33%) won a tender issued by EUMETSAT, the intergovernmental European organisation that gathers and delivers accurate and reliable satellite data on weather, climate and the environment Member and Cooperating States, to international partners, and to users world-wide. Rome 14/01/2016

The first European 3D printer to be used in microgravity will soon be launched with a Resupply mission to the International Space Station. A project leaded among others by Thales Alenia Space. Rome 10/09/2015

For the storage and filing of Regulated Information Leonardo-Finmeccanica uses “NIS-Storage” run by Bit Market Services SpA (London Stock Exchange Group) established in Milan, Piazza degli Affari n. 6 (www.emarketstorage.com); until March 5, 2015 the Company adopted the storage system “1Info” run by Computershare SpA, established in Milan, Via Lorenzo Mascheroni n. 19 (www.1Info.it)